Gallery: Do YOU Remember? - all years - click on image to view

Some of these images were sent in e-mails remembering the good old days and individuals have contributed other images. I received most of the car photos in an e-mail that went around in April 2009 and I just found out that a lot of the photos are also on a great website at http://www.billsretroworld.com/cars.htm. Check them out - he has a lot more car photos on that site.

For those of you who are new to computing and/or surfing the internet, this is just one page of many pages of photos on this site. The home page for our Old Hialeah/Old Miami galleries is at http://www.pbase.com/donboyd/memories and all the oldie galleries spin off from that page. You can also click on the yellow colored >>Memories of Old Hialeah, Old Miami and Old South Florida Photo Galleries << at top of any page to get back to the main oldies page to search other galleries.

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Hopefully you will enjoy seeing the many old images on this page and in the many other historical photo galleries on this website. Perhaps the images and comments have brought back many fond memories of good times for you in the past and have helped you jog your memory of places and people you may have forgotten.

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3D movie glasses

5 cent Cokes

5 cent gum with baseball cards

10 cent Coke Machines

15 cent McDonald's burgers

45-rpm record spindles

1949 Futuramic Oldsmobile 88

1949 Kaiser Virginian

1956 Cadillac Series 62 convertible

1956 Cadillac Series 62 Coupe de Ville

1957 Buick

1957 Chevy - everyone's dream car to cruise, peel out, customize

1957 Chevy

1957 Dodge Royal Lancer

1957 Lincoln Premiere four-door Landau

1957 Mercury advertisement

1958 Cadillac

1959 Chevy

1958 DeSoto

1958 Dodge Custom Sierra

1958 Edsel Citation

1959 Mercury

1959 Buick 2 Door Convertible

1959 Mercury Colony Park Country Cruiser

1960 Lincoln Continental MarkV Four Door Landau

1960 Plymouth Fury

77 Sunset Strip

8-track stereo tape players

Air for free at gas stations

Airstream Trailers

Alfred Hitchcock Presents television program

Aluminum Christmas Trees

Aluminum Christmas trees

American Bandstand

American Bandstand

Automobile in-dash record players - Lawrence Welk in his 1955 Dodge

Ava Gardner

Barbie Millecent Roberts (Barbie Doll)

Baseball - playing it with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

Beany and Cecil

Beatles fan button

Beer, Marching for it

Bell & Howell color slide projectors featuring Sabrina

Betty and Archie comics

Betty Boop

Betty Boop

Bill Mauldin

Blatz Beer being beneficial to young moms and their babies

Blatz Beer coasters

Blondie and Dagwood, debut on February 17, 1933 (history below photo)

Bowling alleys with manual pin setters

Brigitte Bardot

Brownie Cameras

Brylcreem

Bunny Hop, The

Burger Chef restaurants featuring the Big Shef

Burma Shave road signs

Buster Brown TV Show

Buster Brown Shoes Radio Club

Butch wax and crew cut wax

Candy Cigarettes

Candy Cigarettes

Cap Bombs

Captain Kangaroo and Bunny Rabbit

Carhops

Carhops

Chase & Sanborn Coffee

Chatty Cathy Dolls

Chef Boy-Ar-Dee

Chesterfields for Christmas, promoted by Ronald Reagan

Cigarettes for Christmas

Clackers, those horrible finger smashing clacker balls

Continental Kits

Cooties - all girls had them in most of our juvenile male minds

Cork Pop Guns

Cracker Jacks

Davy Crockett Coonskin Caps

Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine and Elvis Presley

Del Taco fast food restaurants in the early years

Ding Dong, Avon Calling

Dinner out with the parents at a real restaurant was a real privilege?

Drive in movie theatres, a great place for dates

Drive-in movie speakers

Drive-In Restaurants

Erector Sets

Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs from 1953 to 1971, 1931-2015

Fallout Shelters

Falstaff Beer

Fire Escape Tubes

Fireflies - catching them could happily occupy an entire evening?

Flash Bulbs

Flower Girls!

Fuller Brush Man

Fuzzy Dice for your car

Gas Stations with full service

Grocery bag covers for school books

Gum Wrapper Chains

Gym uniforms for girls were fairly ugly

Hindenburg's dining room, one of the earliest color photographs

Hindenberg disaster at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey

Hot dogs to impress your lady

Howard Johnson's Motor Lodges

Howard Johnson's Restaurants, famous for their varieties of ice cream and great clam strips

Howard Johnson's Lamplighter Weather Vanes on top of the cupolas

Howard Johnson's Cupola with Simple Simon and Pieman on the weathervane

Howdy Doody

Hula Hoops

Hula Hoops

Iggys

International House of Pancakes early A-frame building design

Jayne Mansfield drawing looks of admiration or envy from Sophia Loren

Jefferson Super Department Stores

JFK's funeral with his son John Jr. saluting his coffin before it was transported to Arlington National Cemetery for burial

Guest, I'm glad you enjoyed the images and there's a huge backlog yet to add. Thank you for your memories. I'm a year older than you so we undoubtedly have many of the same memories. I remember going down to a nearby shopping center to a RCA TV store and they had their first color TV in the big window and there was a crowd of people out on the patio walkway watching it. One of my neighbors happened to come by and made the comment "That's not real color!" as he walked by, which didn't make sense to me because it looked real. It's amazing how far we have come when it comes to televisions. Not necessarily the content of the shows but the resolution, size of the screens, thinness of the screens, color quality, LED backlit, etc.

Don .

Guest

10-Dec-2014 15:04

Great photo's, thanks for memories ! I'm 66, how many of you remember the first color TV show ? Don't remember the exact year, but I remember going over to my neighbors house, to watch " Tinker Bell " come out with her magic wand and hit the center of the screen, to display COLOR on the TV ! What exciting times. Voted !!

EyeCatS: you hit the nail on the head, congrats. We grew up at a damn good time to live with far less BS than the kids growing up decades after us or now. I feel sorry for the kids and young adults of today.

Me, Bob,Wes, would put togather 2 or 3 $ put it into Bobs Aunts 57 ford convertable{ after his aunt went to work} and cruzzze the beach at south beach at the parking garage. Hit lums for a big roast beef, & a pitcher if we could get away with it. We lived around Twin Lakes, and sunday morning, would go play "HOME RUN DURBY" @ the Twin Lakes School field. That's where i 1st realized i'de just inhaled. Only took me 50 yr.s to quit.

Guest

16-Jan-2012 14:46

I remembered most of them....yes, life seemed much less complicated then...I guess because it was slower...things today are all so FAST!!!

I got caught by a cop climbing up a royal palm to see over the fence at the nudist colony in hialeah. I had borrowed a pair of telephone climbers and had gotten to the top to see over the twenty foot fence of green painted tin when the squad car rolled up and my buddy took off in his car. I was sure I'd be going to jail as I climbed down to the waiting cuffs, but the cop simply said..."What, did you see over there kid, I always wondered what they are up to. I sheepisly told him..."Nothing but a janitor or sumpin and he had all his clothes on!" the cop just laughed and took off. Dr. C. E. Breuer former USCG fireman on the Andy berthed on the McAuthur Causeway...I was eighteen.

KLP

04-Apr-2011 17:22

Boy, surprised at how many of these I did remember. I'll be 65 this year and oh how the times have changed. What carefree lives we lived bach then.

Guest

27-Jan-2011 15:02

How about all those starched crenelins and little white gloves. But I also remember the railroad tracks that divided the black community from the whites and white only hotels, restaurants, seating areas in bus stations and, yes, drinking fountains. RGK

HAR

29-Dec-2010 21:43

Times were different and it is fun to look back. But life expectancy was only about
sixty years. Scarlet fever and polio were life threating. Young girls were sent sent to "visit their aunt in Nebraska" or worse a coat hanger. Change is not always progress but with all our problems, we are still better of in many ways. Let us work on solving todays problems and still remember THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

Tari

08-Dec-2010 12:35

What a wonderfull collection of memories !! Seems like we were all so innocent back then. Life was so much easier on children then than it is now, or so it seems.

What a great gallery full of memories! At age 66 I saw most of these sights first hand! V

JudyBob

04-Dec-2010 16:51

This jogged my memory of collecting old papers to sell to the neighborhood junkman for enough coins to get in the movies on a Saturday and buy popcorn. Then open the side door to let a few friends sneek in and hide under the seat till the usher went by with the flashlight. Yeah, I was a rotten kid Thanks for the memories.

A.F.D.

09-Nov-2010 22:14

Guest:I was at an antique sale not too long ago and bought a "Reel Lawn Mower"

While the truck driver of a large open bed semi-truck hauling a load of watermelons, was at a restaurant across the street having dinner, me and my buddies would help ourselves to as many watermelons as we could stash under the trees along the railroad tracks.

Guest

11-Oct-2010 21:25

We used to walk to the "Standard" (not Chevron), gas station and while the station attendant was busy, we'd open the lid to the Coke machine where the Cokes were with the bottle cap facing up. We'd pop the lid off a Coca Cola and drinking it with a straw.

Guest

08-Oct-2010 13:31

We the waxed bottles, we use to poor the fluid out (it was horrible tasting). Then take the wax, rub it on a comic book frame, turn that upside down on a piece of paper and rub the back with a penny. The image would show up on the piece of paper. It was cool.

Guest

13-Sep-2010 15:43

Do you remember the sling shot that could be turned into a bow for shooting arrows. They were confiscated by the police soon after we bought them.

Bob

07-Sep-2010 20:01

I do remember drive in movie theaters, but not the speakers. Never needed speakers. I
can't recall any of the movies at the Drive in theaters, but I can remember every date I
ever had at one....;) My 56 Chevy was the best..... burned oil with the best of them and
no PCA to whine about it. Used to bring our .22 rifles to school because we were going squirrel hunting afterwards. None of the teachers ever had a problem with us leaving our
guns at the coat rack (but cased.)

GUEST

07-Sep-2010 17:48

HOW ABOUT THE 37 CHEVY WND BUICK WITH SUICIDE DOORS ??

Guest

02-Sep-2010 19:18

How about a few "White Only", For Colored" signs. Everything for everybody was not pie in the sky!

Guest

20-Aug-2010 15:47

I remember those old radio shows, every bit as exciting as T.V. We'd hurry to get our chores done then let our imagination take over as we shivered to "The Shadow", outsmarted the bad guys with"The Lone Ranger" and laughed at "Our Miss Brooks", and others.
This site has been so enjoyable....simpler times..

Guest

16-Aug-2010 23:17

You wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with?......................Pepsodent.

Dave Anderson

03-Aug-2010 16:46

This collection follows the saying "If you can remember the 60's, you didn't live through 'em.
But you had to live through the 50's to get your money's worth. What an absolute gas of a collection of memories. Thanks

Guest

30-Jul-2010 19:13

Super! If you would go back just a bit furthur, THE depression! That's when we had everything but money. Remember?? And how about Amos and Andy? Fibber Magee and Molly?

EILEEN MCM AGAIN...LET'S NOT FORGET OUR "BREAD MAN" DELIVERING OUR BREADS AND THE BREADS TO NAME A FEW....BOND, FREIHOFER, ETC.

EILEEN MCMICHAEL

28-Jul-2010 15:57

EILEEN MCM......REMEMBERS THE MILK BOTTLES FREEZING AND THE CREAM WOULD COME TO THE TOP OF THE GLASS BOTTLE. ALSO MILK BOTTLES WERE PUT INTO THE METAL CONTAINER SUPPLIED BY THE MILK COMPANY AND LEFT FOR US AT THE FRONT DOOR.

Guest

26-Jul-2010 21:02

a walk down memory lane! Thank you.

Guest

26-Jul-2010 20:38

Oh my gosh, I certainly do remembe most of them. Lets go back to those good old days. You weren't afraid to live life.

Guest

23-Jul-2010 15:41

I remember 12 of us little kids sitting in front of a 12" black & white Philco T.V. Ray

Guest

20-Jul-2010 18:30

GOSH! What Memories!!! All of us kids on the floor gathered right in front of the old TV set...I still remember the Flintstones, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, the Jetsons, I Dream of Genie... riding in the back of the OLD, USED family station wagon with NO airconditioning, my ONE dressy pair of slightly high-heeled shoes purchased at "Payless Shoe Store"....

Rex Allen

16-Jul-2010 11:56

I remember going to the Gas Station and flipping the guy a quarter and getting my one galon can filled and getting change. With this change I went to the candy store and loaded my pocket with 2 for a penny candy.

Bill

15-Jul-2010 16:36

Sigh!

Guest

13-Jul-2010 11:03

Let's go back.I can't keep up here.

Guest

09-Jul-2010 20:30

i'm glad i remember all of these things, i guess i've lived' no definitly lived. the sad thing is the kids today don't have a clue, it's kind of sad. life is'nt about things, it's about freinds and family, if you've got that you have it all. thanks for the memories.

Guest

07-Jul-2010 16:05

Thanks for he memories. Those days gone were precious and will forever be in my heart!

Guest

05-Jul-2010 10:43

Love the old images..I remember most of them..my dad actually drove that red 58 Desoto Convertible..loved it. Thanks for the excellent visuals...

Ted Baida

02-Jul-2010 21:26

For 52 cents I could go to Royal Castle on 8th St. (near the Tower Theater) and eat like a king while thoroughly enjoying 3-count them-3 hamburgers, a frosty Birch beer, AND a terrific honey bun. I can still taste it.

Guest

02-Jul-2010 13:49

JSP We cannot forget about the air raid drills in school, going under the desk or in the hall with our arms folded against the wall and our heads on our arms; Carvel at 10 cents a cone; Woolworths (the five and dime); soda fountains; Psycho. It truly has been many, many years, but they have all been good.

Guest

30-Jun-2010 17:51

this was great to receive. only 52 but what great memories! thanks

Guest

29-Jun-2010 22:27

Eastern Airlines, Braniff International Airlines, Ipana toothpaste

Enzo (again)

29-Jun-2010 15:40

Oh...did I forget to thank you very much for such a wonderful site? I just wish we could go back to those days even if it's just for a short time. Things were so much better then.

Enzo

29-Jun-2010 15:36

It brings a tear to my eye to see all the wonderful things we enjoyed as kids that are now either "outlawed" or otherwise "forbidden". Maybe we'll live long enough to see things like cellphones, safety caps, 5 mile/hour bumpers, and political correctness "outlawed". I doubt it. It's only gonna get worse.

Guest

28-Jun-2010 17:17

Ila Rickards
My husband just said "are we THAT Old"; My how time flyes; it was great in the GOOD OLE DAYS!!

Guest

23-Jun-2010 15:51

Memories that never fade away:-)

Dolores

14-Jun-2010 18:31

I had one of those ugly gymsuits back in l947; and a friend had one of those ugly Edsels. Fortunately Lincoln Logs are still around. I just put one together for Gavin.

Guest

10-Jun-2010 04:04

Remember also the stick pens and fountain pens? We'd flip the stick pens and the nib would stick in the wood floor of the classroom, which, of course, ruined the pen nib!

EM

09-Jun-2010 04:37

MY O MY HOW TIMES HAS CHANGED!

Guest

09-Jun-2010 03:38

Warm & Fuzzy

Guest

06-Jun-2010 00:00

Just today I was commenting to my wife on how the world has changed from those sweet and simple days of long gone.

Steve/Needles

27-May-2010 09:54

Thank you for the memories. 'twas a wonderful way of life, glad to have been a part of it.

ricky green

26-May-2010 15:56

GOOD COLLECTION OF THE PAST.

Guest

26-May-2010 15:53

GREAT!!!

Nate Owens

26-May-2010 06:34

Wow this is nice funny how time flys.

Guest

19-May-2010 17:08

It's to bad we can't go back in time for real, things would definately be better. It seemed like life was so much happier and allot less complicated!

Pam

19-May-2010 12:16

The smiles and memories are priceless! Thanks!

John Morlock

11-May-2010 22:50

I wouldn't swear to it but, doesn't the Fuller brush man look like Red Skelton?

I loved going through this gallery. It brought back many good memories! Thank you!
Debbie

Bob

14-Mar-2009 21:10

Thank you. I just went back in time with these and it was great. It was a time when we didn't have to worry about you daughter getting pregnant or your son doing drugs. You just wondered if you could get enough of your friends together after school to play a game of baseball.

Vikki Ricciardelli Williams

12-Dec-2008 20:25

I am so glad to see the Winky Dink photo. I talk about it all the time and looks like I am crazy. I have the proof now. "smile"

If I had all my baseball cards and comic books, I would rich!!! :o) This is one fun gallery to look through. Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I must admit, I remember them ALL and then some. :o) BIG V from me!!!!
Judy